136 CONVEYANCING. [ART. 24.

such previous to the passage of the act of eighteen hundred and
fifty-two, chapter one hundred and six, and continued so to act,
without having qualified as'required by the said act, and as such
Commissioner took the acknowledgment of any deed or mort-
gage, such deed or mortgage shall be as valid as if the said Com-
missioner had been duly qualified to act at the time of the taking
such acknowledgment, or doing any other official act.

23. Neither livery of seisein norindenting shall be necessary to
the validity of any deed.

24. Any person seized of an estate tail in possession, reversion
or remainder, in any lands, tenements or hereditaments, may
grant, sell and convey the same in the same manner and by the
same form of conveyance as if he were seized of an estate in fee
simple, and such conveyanee shall be good and available to all
intents and purposes against all persons whom the grantor might
debar by any mode of common recovery, or by any ways or
means whatsoever.

25. Every power of attorney authorizing an agent or attorney
to sell and convey any real estate, shall be attested and acknow-
ledged in the same manner as a deed, and recorded with the deed
executed in pursuance of such power of attorney; but a corpo-
ration shall have power to appoint an attorney for the same
purpose, by its corporate seal.

26. Such power of attorney shall be deemed to be revoked
when the instrument containing the revocation is recorded in the
office in which the deed should properly be recorded.

27. Any person executing a deed conveying real estate, as
agent or attorney for another, shall describe himself in and sign
the deed as agent or attorney.

MORTGAGES.

28. Deeds of mortgage conveying any use, estate or interest in
land shall be executed, acknowledged and recorded as absolute
deeds of the same.

29. No mortgage shall be valid except as between the parties
thereto, unless there be endorsed thereon an oath or affirmation
of the mortgagee that the consideration in said mortgage is true